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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1982- THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR -PAGE 21 Continuous exercise valuable Canadian is refreshing Target heart rate differs; discuss it with physician Diplomat's wife learning By STEPHANIE MANSFIELD Why grow old Josephine Lowman I think many people acquire an inferiority complex about exercise. They observe the exertion of joggers and those indulging in other forms of vigorous exercise and are completely turned off, thinking, "I can't possibly do that" You do not have to! You can improve your cardiovascular system with a less strenous form of activity. Aerobic exercise has been introduced and popularized in several books by Dr. Kenneth Cooper. IN THESE the doctor emphasizes the value of steady continuous action exercise rather than that which is particularly strenuous.

According to Dr. Cooper if you exercise at your "target heart rate" for 15 or 20 minutes, three times or more a week, this will produce a training effect (improvement in your cardiovas cular system). The target heart rate is that which tl 43k I 4'" fir If Jill Uvf I Vr-fiTr wamineTON post Washington Sondra Gotlieb, the wife of the new Canadian ambassador to Washington, recalls with horror and amusement her introduction to the pitfalls of protocol. It was Geneva, 1960. Mrs.

Gotlieb, plump, unglamorous, university dropout, sat across a restaurant table from her husband Allan, sophisticated Rhodes scholar and first secretary at the Canadian mission. They had wed six years earlier, when Sondra was 18 and Allan 26. It was an "arranged" marriage, a bargain struck between two Winnipeg families. At the dinner, honoring Rhodes scholars, Sondra was seated between a duke and an American senator. There were two other women present, one the daughter of an earl.

After dinner, a decanter of wine was passed to the guests. Sondra let the sweetness of the liquor loosen her young, inexperienced tongue. She took one glass, then another, chatting incessantly. A hush fell over the table. Sondra noticed her husband jerking his neck.

Suddenly, the earl's daughter swept out of the room, followed by the other woman. The men stood up. Sondra kept talking. The men were still standing. Sondra kept talking.

Finally, one of them interrupted to ask if she wouldn't like to join the other women. SHE WALKED OUT to the adjoining room where the earl's daughter sat reading a newspaper. "Sondra, don't you know when the port comes around, ladies never stay with the gentlemen? You're the senior woman. You should have walked out first" Sondra decided to go to the wash THE GIRLS By Franklin Folger is safe for you. This differs with indi viduals.

To find what yours is subtract your age from 220. Sixty percent of that usually is right. However discuss this with your physician before beginning any exercise. TODAY'S EXERCISE will strengthen the lower abdomen. If you are just beginning an exercise program do this five times at first.

Gradually increase. Lie on the floor on your back with your legs straight and your arms rest ing at your sides. Lift your left leg just off of the floor. Raise your right leg as you lower your left leg. As you lower your right leg raise your left.

One leg moves up and the other moves down. If this seems a strain, allow your heels to touch the floor each time until your muscles are stronger. For your copy of the booklet. "Iso metric Exercises for Women, send 50 cents and a self addressed, stamped envelope with your request to Josephine Lowman, in care of The Indian apolis Star, P.O. Box 4994, Des Moines, Iowa 50306.

Rgisttr and Tribunt Syndicate "Someone moved the Romance section. Who dunnit?" met here. "I thought they'd be cold or snobby, but they weren't." Speaking of Sondra Gotlieb, one Canadian journalist says, "I think she's perceived in Canada as a real character." In Ottawa, the Gotliebs were known as a very prominent social couple. Allan Gotlieb, with his Victorian flair and impeccable academic credentials, filled their house with rare prints, antiques and hand-carved chess sets. And even if his author wife was outspoken, she was certainly no liability.

"She's different Unusual. Not your normal diplomatic wife by any stretch of the imagination," the journalist added. "Rut beneath that flaky exterior is a fairly solid person. Washington will probably be more tolerant of her than Ottawa was. They may even find her enchanting." At least one prominent Washington socialite who has been a guest at one of the embassy's first dinner parties already agrees.

"I FIND HER deliciously offbeat," the woman says, pleading anonymity. "She gives the impression of being much more unsophisticated than she really is. She is well-read and well-traveled. A woman of strong opinions. Highly intelligent.

I think Washington is going to find her refreshing." Sondra Gotlieb wants to show her visitor something. It's a Xeroxed copy of an article she wrote, titled "Housewives are People, Too!" It is an angry defense of the housewife. "Loyal wives, whether they are married to politicians, diplomats or coal miners, have become the lepers of our society What's wrong with cleaning your husband's bathtub? I consider myself an 'appendage' wife. I married at 18 with no thought of becoming anything but a wife and mother." But after her three children were in school, her interest in cooking led to two books. The Gourmet's Canada and Cross Canada Cooking, both published in the 70s: She did a bit of freelance writing and talk-show chatting before being urged to write her autobiographical novel, True Confections or How My Family Arranged My Marriage.

THE BOOK WON a Leacock Award for humor in 1978. Part Erma Bombeck, part Philip Roth, Sondra Gotlieb captured the essence of growing up chubby in Winnipeg, ending with the hilarious circumstances of her marriage to Allan Gotlieb, the Harvard Law School graduate and Rhodes scholar home from Oxford who took her out for nine consecutive days, then casually mentioned that they might someday be married. When Allan returned to England, both families sprang into action with overseas phone calls to and from Oxford, pushing, prodding and suggesting until Sondra Kaufman, without formally being asked, said yes. "We had met. We liked each other," she recalls.

"They (the families) just speeded up the process. When he came off the plane from Oxford I didn't recognize him. I couldn't remember what he looked like. We got to know each other after the marriage. And we got along very well." After Allan finished his education in England, they moved back to Ottowa, where Allan joined the Department of External Affairs, eventually working his way up to undersecretary before being appointed ambassador to Washington.

room. She found the door and walked in. After a few moments, Allan Gotlieb appeared, accompanied by several of SHOP AT HOME the men from the dinner table. He Aero cleared his throat, then told his wife that the funny sinks on the wall where she was going to wash her hands were Drapery U1 SHOP THE DRAPERY MART Draper not sinks at all. "If I managed to live through that," she laughs, "nothing could both er me anymore.

But the rites of passage in the wily Sondra Gotlieb, ambassador's wife ways of protocol aren't over. At the age of 46, Sondra Gotlieb suddenly finds herself an ambassador's wife. Washington is a tough city, she has been told. The rules, the rituals, the 'STEP IN TO SPRING" "STEP IN TO SPRING" WITH CUSTOM QUALITY LifeStyle parties, the politics. And it is especially tough for a woman who's never done it before, who, unlike most of her peers, never had the advantage of trying out for the position in, say, Abu Dhabi first.

IN THE FIRST place, it was like Alice in Wonderland for me because I've never had a staff and I didn't know what to do," she says, gazing around the marble and leather and oriental carpeted Canadian residence. I didn't know I was supposed to say what we were having for dinner and stuff like that. I didn't know what the maid was going to do." She is short and dimple-cheeked the house. I didn't know how to work the telephones. It took me three weeks to work that out.

Very physical problems. And I'm not very quick about these things." Until recently, Sondra Gotlieb was a successful Canadian author 1 who had never thought of having a social secretary. Since her baptism by fire in Geneva, she has learned about protocol. Oh sure, she says, she still spills wine on her dress and says outrageous things, but nothing can top. that night.

SHE EVEN RE CREATED the scene for her new novel, First Lady, Last Lady, which is causing a stir in Canada. The book includes the ambitious wife of a prime minister who is being blackmailed, a homosexual ambassador who is murdered, servants who lick the bubbles from champagne bottles and a cast of characters who rip the chafing dish lid off the diplomatic life. Mrs. Gotlieb isn't used to servants. "They don't know what you want.

I don't know what I want. That's the problem. I mean, for the first three days it was like living in a hotel. I thought it was just bliss. Then, for the next two weeks, I couldn't stand it.

I didn't want to see any of them. Now I'm used to it. Now we have a section of the house closed off. Nobody bothers me there." For the first three weeks, she didn't know there was a powder room on the first floor. "I kept running up and down the stairs." She has no sense of direction, arriving 20 minutes early for every social event, instructing the chauffeur to ride around the block just one more time.

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